Date

Wednesday, 28 Feb 2018 7:00 PM

Experience frequent product delivery with peers like you!

Whether you are interested to get your hands dirty with code, or to bring improvement ideas to a software product, join us for this new monthly meetup series. We will develop a new software product from scratch.

WHAT WE WILL BUILD:

Imagine you're in the mood for dining in the city this evening. You have an approximate idea of what you want to eat, and you have a budget limit. How do you decide where to go? How do you make a reservation? How do you know the restaurant is not already fully booked?

That's what our software product will offer: a place where you can easily make a restaurant reservation based on a few simple criteria.

HOW IS THIS GOING TO WORK?

The facilitator (Alin Pandichi) will play the role of a Product Owner. He will provide user stories for you to pick up and implement. He will also prioritize the features based on the feedback we will get from the users of the product.

You will receive all the assistance you need in order to contribute to this product, including guidance from a Technical Leader.

You are encouraged to bring a laptop, although it is not a requirement.

There will be a Github repository where you can submit your pull requests.

You can choose to develop using any programming language / any technology stack. This will be possible due to the microservices architecture of the product.

HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE:

Even if you don't write code, there are lots of ways you can contribute.

As a tester, business analyst, product owner, user experience specialist, designer, marketing specialist, (etc., you name it), you can contribute too:

Date

Tuesday, 23 Jan 2018 7:00 PM

The purpose of this first meeting is to get the ball rolling: we will come up with a name for the product, and implement the most basic Minimum Viable Product. The target is to have a working version after 2 hours of working together.___________________________________________________

Experience frequent product delivery with peers like you!

Whether you are interested to get your hands dirty with code, or to bring improvement ideas to a software product, join us for this new monthly meetup series. We will develop a new software product from scratch.

WHAT WE WILL BUILD:

Imagine you're in the mood for dining in the city this evening. You have an approximate idea of what you want to eat, and you have a budget limit. How do you decide where to go? How do you make a reservation? How do you know the restaurant is not already fully booked?

That's what our software product will offer: a place where you can easily make a restaurant reservation based on a few simple criteria.

HOW IS THIS GOING TO WORK?

The facilitator (Alin Pandichi) will play the role of a Product Owner. He will provide user stories for you to pick up and implement. He will also prioritize the features based on the feedback we will get from the users of the product.

You will receive all the assistance you need in order to contribute to this product, including guidance from a Technical Leader.

You are encouraged to bring a laptop, although it is not a requirement.

There will be a Github repository where you can submit your pull requests.

You can choose to develop using any programming language / any technology stack. This will be possible due to the microservices architecture of the product.

HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE:

Even if you don't write code, there are lots of ways you can contribute.

As a tester, business analyst, product owner, user experience specialist, designer, marketing specialist, (etc., you name it), you can contribute too:

Date

Wednesday, 28 Mar 2018 7:00 PM

Experience frequent product delivery with peers like you!

Whether you are interested to get your hands dirty with code, or to bring improvement ideas to a software product, join us for this new monthly meetup series. We will develop a new software product from scratch.

WHAT WE WILL BUILD:

Imagine you're in the mood for dining in the city this evening. You have an approximate idea of what you want to eat, and you have a budget limit. How do you decide where to go? How do you make a reservation? How do you know the restaurant is not already fully booked?

That's what our software product will offer: a place where you can easily make a restaurant reservation based on a few simple criteria.

HOW IS THIS GOING TO WORK?

The facilitator (Alin Pandichi) will play the role of a Product Owner. He will provide user stories for you to pick up and implement. He will also prioritize the features based on the feedback we will get from the users of the product.

You will receive all the assistance you need in order to contribute to this product, including guidance from a Technical Leader.

You are encouraged to bring a laptop, although it is not a requirement.

There will be a Github repository where you can submit your pull requests.

You can choose to develop using any programming language / any technology stack. This will be possible due to the microservices architecture of the product.

HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE:

Even if you don't write code, there are lots of ways you can contribute.

As a tester, business analyst, product owner, user experience specialist, designer, marketing specialist, (etc., you name it), you can contribute too:

Date

Tuesday, 10 Apr 2018 7:00 PM

What

The code and beer idea is simple enough: we gather in the evening after work, in a pub, have a beer and write some code. It is a social coding event where you can share ideas with other developers. You can come and leave whenever you want.

Why would you come and join us

Meet other programmersWork on your own projectHelp others with their projectsFind someone who might help you with a specific topicPair with someone and learn new thingsJust hang around and talk to people

How

Bring your laptop and some code that you'll be working on. If you don't have code then think about what you would like to practice during the evening.

There is no predefined agenda. We just meet and work on whatever we feel like.

Important

Please specify what you would like to do during the evening by answering the question "What would you like to practice?" when registering.

Also, as soon as you know you can no longer attend the meeting please change your RSVP to NO immediately. Consider this gesture a sign of respect towards other members of this group who might want to attend in your place.

The number of attendees is limited because of the difficulties of finding a big pub and making reservations for a big group.

Date

Agile Talks wants to bring together people who are passionate about software development and agile methods.

We will have two talks of maximum 30 minutes and after that two Open Space slots for around one hours.

The event ends with a group retrospective and with some conclusions from the participants.

Agile Talks is a great opportunity to both learn from other people's experiences and discuss your own topics during the Open Space.

First Talk: Flavius Stef - " 5 things I've learned in 10 years of agile". I first worked in an agile team in 2008. In the meantime, as a developer, manager, coach and consultant, I’ve seen more than 50 teams try “doing agile”. Some of their attempts succeeded, others failed. In this talk I’ll distill my learnings over the last decade and in the process hopefully debunk the most common myths surrounding agile. Design, productivity or change management are just three of the themes I’ll cover.

Flavius Stef is VP Engineering at Syneto, where he leads the development of the company’s main product line called HYPERseries. Starting with 2011, he worked as a coach and trainer, helping teams in more than 20 companies transition to an Agile way of working.

Second Talk: John Meehan & Tom Suter - "Implementation of the SAFe Framework @ Haufe-umantis". In 2017, Haufe-umantis, a company of the Haufe Group, began to deploy the SAFe Framework at its offices in St Gallen, Switzerland, and Barcelona, Spain.This discussion will center on the various challenges encountered in deploying the framework within a culturally-diverse organisation, the tools adopted as part of this deployment, and the lessons learned thus far along the journey.

Tom Suter is a Scrum Master and Agile Coach at Haufe-umantis in St Gallen. A Dutch national, Tom has many years’ experience in coaching teams to achieve their potential as high-performing development teams.

John Meehan is a Scrum Master and Agile Coach at Haufe-umantis in Barcelona. An Irish national, John has many years’ experience as a systems developer, project manager, and for the last 5 years, as a Scrum Master in Ireland, the Middle-East, and, most recently, in Spain.

If you want to sponsor Agile Talks, please get in touch. Participants love having some drinks and some food in the evening so that can discuss the current burning matters with more energy.

Date

Agile Talks wants to bring together people who are passionate about software development and agile methods.

We will have two talks of maximum 30 minutes and after that two Open Space slots for around one hours.

The event ends with a group retrospective and with some conclusions from the participants.

Agile Talks is a great opportunity to both learn from other people's experiences and discuss your own topics during the Open Space.

First Talk: Alexandra Draghici - "The PM vs. PO dilemma"

Description: The boundaries between the two roles are fuzzy at times. Theory tells us that the Product Manager has an external focus, while the Product Owner has an internal one. This talk aims to provide specific, first-hand examples of who does what, and to show how the synergy between PMs and POs can be stimulated, to the benefit of what matters the most in the end - the product itself.

Alexandra is currently a Product Manager and former Product Owner at 123FormBuilder.

Second Talk: Csaba Patkos - "Leader walk the same road"

Description: Sometimes the leader is seen as a little god by his team. Other times heshe sees hisher team members as minions. These two ways are far away from what I consider to be an ideal leader. An ideal leader is an integral part of the team. He is the servant of it. A true leader suffers and joys beside his team. Come and let's talk about this topic

Csaba is Engineering Team Lead at Syneto. Having more than 10 experience in software development, he is responsible for leading a team of developers towards success.

If you want to sponsor Agile Talks, please get in touch. Participants love having some drinks and some food in the evening so that can discuss the current burning matters with more energy.

Date

Wednesday, 28 Mar 2018 6:45 PM

A Coding Dojo is a team practice format that accelerates knowledge transfer and sharing skills between team members. With an experienced facilitator, it is also a way of learning by applying various techniques.

Objectives

The following skills are typical candidates for improvement during a dojo:

In addition, coding dojo can be used by a team as a collective and structured way of solving difficult or risky problems related to production, like fixing a bug or redesigning parts of the application.

How it works?

The basic format of a coding dojo:

• All developers and the facilitator gather in a room.• The facilitator introduces the purpose and the format of the coding dojo.• One laptop with a functional development environment is connected to a projector.• Two developers pair program on the laptop. The others are in the room, watching the code changes.• Every 7 minutes, one developer leaves the laptop and the next one from the room takes his place.• After a specified period of time (usually around two hours), the dojo ends with a retrospective.

Date

Tuesday, 27 Mar 2018 7:00 PM

What

The code and beer idea is simple enough: we gather in the evening after work, in a pub, have a beer and write some code. It is a social coding event where you can share ideas with other developers. You can come and leave whenever you want.

Why would you come and join us

Meet other programmersWork on your own projectHelp others with their projectsFind someone who might help you with a specific topicPair with someone and learn new thingsJust hang around and talk to people

How

Bring your laptop and some code that you'll be working on. If you don't have code then think about what you would like to practice during the evening.

There is no predefined agenda. We just meet and work on whatever we feel like.

Important

Please specify what you would like to do during the evening by answering the question "What would you like to practice?" when registering.

Also, as soon as you know you can no longer attend the meeting please change your RSVP to NO immediately. Consider this gesture a sign of respect towards other members of this group who might want to attend in your place.

The number of attendees is limited because of the difficulties of finding a big pub and making reservations for a big group.

Date

Agile Talks wants to bring together people who are passionate about software development and agile methods.

We will have two talks of maximum 30 minutes and after that two Open Space slots for around one hours.

The event ends with a group retrospective and with some conclusions from the participants.

Agile Talks is a great opportunity to both learn from other people's experiences and discuss your own topics during the Open Space.

First Talk: Robert Mălai - "The Product Mindset". The Product Mindset will help your company to become a valuable partner to your customers, enabling them to fulfil their business goals.

Robert is working as an Engineering Manager at 3Pillar Global. Robert is extremely passionate about technology and engineering, which he has been managing for the last 15 years in various teams. He has built products from embedded software development in automotive to distributed services in the cloud. Robert is also passionate about databases, Linux servers, Python, JavaScript and Software Development. Prior to joining 3Pillar, Robert was involved in the automotive industry during his stint at Continental Automotive.

Second Talk: Iulian Paduraru - Facilitation - What actually is it?. During this session Iulian Paduraru will share his thoughts on what facilitation is and how can we use it in our company so that we overcome our obstacles.

Iulian is an Agile Project Manager and Agile Coach at isoftbet.com. With a background as a software developer, he is very passionate about agile, software development and technology in general.

If you want to sponsor Agile Talks, please get in touch. Participants love having some drinks and some food in the evening so that can discuss the current burning matters with more energy.

Date

Tuesday, 13 Mar 2018 7:00 PM

What

The code and beer idea is simple enough: we gather in the evening after work, in a pub, have a beer and write some code. It is a social coding event where you can share ideas with other developers. You can come and leave whenever you want.

Why would you come and join us

Meet other programmersWork on your own projectHelp others with their projectsFind someone who might help you with a specific topicPair with someone and learn new thingsJust hang around and talk to people

How

Bring your laptop and some code that you'll be working on. If you don't have code then think about what you would like to practice during the evening.

There is no predefined agenda. We just meet and work on whatever we feel like.

Important

Please specify what you would like to do during the evening by answering the question "What would you like to practice?" when registering.

Also, as soon as you know you can no longer attend the meeting please change your RSVP to NO immediately. Consider this gesture a sign of respect towards other members of this group who might want to attend in your place.

The number of attendees is limited because of the difficulties of finding a big pub and making reservations for a big group.